Rehearsals for Luna are underway. This show is inspired by the pioneering women of Birmingham and is the final part of my Birmingham trilogy, following City of a Thousand Trades and Black Sabbath - The Ballet.

🎟️: brb.org.uk/shows/luna

Birmingham Royal Ballet

Rehearsals for Luna are in full swing ✨

Inspired by the pioneering women of Birmingham, Luna is the final part of Carlos Acosta's Birmingham trilogy.

🎟️: brnw.ch/21wJHNj

For the first time, this doc. traces the intertwined life & work of our dad in a original way, based entirely on archive footage and using his own voice, revealing a more intimate side. A film by David Teboul
(Photo©Laura_Truffaut)
Official Selection at Cannes Classics
#Truffaut

I thank Anthea Bell for having made it possible for me (and so many others!) to read “Austerlitz.”

Band call before the Sabbath Ballet goes on a world tour ☺️ so good to hear this again!

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Christopher Austin Joshua Hickin Birmingham Royal Ballet Birmingham Royal Ballet_RBSinfonia BlackSabbath

👉Bernard Pivot avait popularisé le questionnaire de Proust dans « Bouillon de culture » . En 2001, pour la dernière édition de l’émission, il s'était prêté au jeu d’y répondre !
20 ans après, François Busnel dans La Grande Librairie, lui propose de rééditer l'expérience !

⁦Mathieu Demy⁩ 4K ☔️merci aux équipes ⁦Leon Rousseau⁩ ⁦Cineteca di Bologna⁩ / eclair classics ⭐️🎥⭐️ ⁦⁦Festival de Cannes⁩ 🙏 aux partenaires ⁦Le CNC⁩ ⁦Sacem⁩ ⁦CHANEL⁩ see you in ⁦Palais des Festivals⁩

Even now there are
places where a thought might grow,
even there perhaps

or County Wexford
but where that thought leads us is
to a burned-down house,

where every thought grows
beyond itself. The dark shed
opens. The mushrooms

still want elbow room.

There’s an especially insidious McCarthyite climate right now for anyone left of centre but hard to imagine a more vivid & slaying example of courage, persistence & self-sacrifice in the face of barbarism & ignorance than this incredible story

theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

Josyane Savigneau Christopher Austin Alain Lompech Karita Mattila Stef Dr David Vernon Hier Caroline Potter 🇪🇺 demandait qui savait que Bruno Maderna avait écrit 3 concertos pour hautbois. J'ai levé le doigt. Cela me rappelle ma jeunesse furieusement moderne. J'aime tjrs la couleur, la poésie de ce 2e c°. Josyane Savigneau Christopher Austin #ChoixMusical
youtube.com/watch?v=aa9Pj3…

Georges Perec.

It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise that something is wrong, that you don’t know how to live and you will never know.

Slash giving a surprise to some kids who are covering the iconic Guns N' Roses song 'Sweet Child O' Mine'.

Love the fact that Slash didn't distract the lead vocalist who was doing such an awesome job.

When she realized that Slash was actually there, her look was priceless.

Joined at 16, boarding ops down Gulf at 19. Trained in Kuwait at 25, 26 getting blown up in Iraq,Basra doing land ops.
Did 20+ years before injury forced me out, injurys I still suffer from.
I will continue to fight bully's, inequality and poor MP's if that's OK with you Bruce!

“If I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.” — John Berryman buff.ly/4ckqxS7

Happy Birthday Bill Ward who is 76 today! 🙌
Born on this day in Birmingham in 1948.

#blacksabbath #billward #heavymetal #birmingham

So proud of my former student Asima Qayyum elected Labour Councillor for Barton and Sandhills, Oxford.

Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman Laura Kuenssberg 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃

Honestly, it's the best thing we can do !

Wonderful to see the front cover of Laura van der Heijden’s new cd with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Out in June…exciting! 😍

‘Lenin himself adored Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata, whilst other Marxist ideologues, including Leon Trotsky, were clear that art could not be reduced to ideology. What is happening to classical music now is worse…’

thecritic.co.uk/a-discordant-s…